May 2012
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In 1986, I stepped into a residential street and mooned a car. It stopped instead of going around. We both held our positions for what seemed like forever. #supermoon
March 2012
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February 2012
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“As a journalist in the Middle East, as an Arab-American, I am struck time and...”
– Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria on Thursday, writing on nostalgia and loss in a 2008 essay about his efforts to restore his grandmother’s home in Lebanon. A great loss.
(via publicinsightjeff)
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“It’s the life you can’t escape that gives you the knowledge you need to grow as...”
– Norman Mailer, in an interview with Steven Marcus
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“Last night, with my lids pulled over me, I went on seeing as if I were an open...”
– William Gass, knocking me on my ass in his novel, “The Tunnel”
“This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence — to the...”
– Studs Terkel, from the introduction to Working, his oral history, where “people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” Hear audio of some of the 130 interviews Terkel conducted for the book. It was published in 1974, during another time of great economic upheaval in...
January 2012
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We are the soon-to-have percent!
December 2011
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November 2011
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“It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to...”
– Edward R. Murrow
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October 2011
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Ian MacKaye: "You can't stop music"
I just came upon a feature I wrote for Punk Planet in 2004. I was surveying independent labels as Apple was courting them for the iTunes catalog and the RIAA was just starting to sue people for downloading music they didn’t pay for.
Not surprisingly, my conversation with Dischord’s Ian MacKaye was a highlight. There are two stand out quotes. Here’s one:
“Everyone told me...
September 2011
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February 2011
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“Dear friend. We received your kind letter in which you condemned the American...”
– Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to a group of second-graders in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Students wrote the dictator in 1986 to ask him to stop bombing the U.S., and he replied.
(via minnpost)
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That's Easy: Mariah Carey's Office is Right...
derekg:
I wish I knew where all this glitter was coming from. I am constantly covered in it.
Perhaps one of you should pay her a visit waiving the WikiLeaks Libya cables and ask how that concert for Gaddafi’s son went! If you do this, I will pay you in candy.
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All of Gaddafi's accusations of pill-popping,...
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I don't mean to oversimplify this, but listening...
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Iraqi Day of Rage Planned for Friday, Feb. 25
thepoliticalnotebook:
It is a date being discussed in Iraq’s tea shops, on television and in the streets with varying shades of hope, fear and cynicism.
On Friday, thousands of Iraqis are planning to take to the streets for their own “day of rage,” hoping to harness the popular anger that has swept through much of the Middle East but has failed to gain much traction here.
-New York Times
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Gaddafi or Qaddafi? Welcome to the transliteration... →
Changing letters or words from one alphabet into the corresponding letters or words from another alphabet is called transliteration. Rendering a language from another alphabet (or from a pictographic system such as Chinese) into the Latin alphabet is called Romanization.
…The difficulty in Romanizing Arabic was illustrated in the 1980s by the multiple spellings for Libyan strongman...
The power of nonviolent struggle, and how not to... →
minnpost:
It’s hard to talk about nonviolent struggle without bringing 83-year-old political scientist Gene Sharp into the discussion. His seminal list “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action” and his book “From Dictatorship to Democracy” have inspired revolutionaries from Belgrade to Tehran, and now his work is…
January 2011
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